2000 BMW R1100RT (Touring)
When I got back into riding after a LONG pause I knew I liked the old bikes and cruisers. I purchased and sold a few bikes and recently saw something that looked like a "great deal" and could not resist. Threw my 2nd XJ650 I got recently up for sale, found a local buyer quickly and then picked this up the same day for not much more than I sold the XJ650.
I will not say I'm a "beamer guy" but I could not help but want to experience it. My riding buddy has an R1200ST. This was priced so low that I could not resist and I'll do the work on it myself so it will be the first Fuel Injected engine I will be working on since I worked on my 77 Datsun 260Z back in the late 80's (when I say worked on it, I really did not do much). Seller was a Harley guy experimenting and I got it for $2K. It was in front of his house and he did not have it listed online anywhere and just wanted it out of his garage. I has about 42K miles on it. Perfect tires
and everything seemed to be working. It has some scratches and scars on it. The windsheild was clouded from UV fade and I already polished it up enough to make it tolerable till I get more time to do it well. All he said he did in 3 years was put 1000 miles on it, oil change and new Battery. I'll take the oil change with a grain of salt and put that on my list of things to do in the near future.
One thing that may be of interest around here is the bags were faded on the inside section of the plastic. I saw a youtube video of a guy using a heat gun so I started on the bottom to test this out and it seemed to work. There are some little tricks I learned experimenting so I got it hot enough but not too hot to melt and still overlap to not stripe the darkening. I did one bag (the right) only. I also wanted to try the liquid restorer stuff so that's coming today. I'll see which lasts longer but this bike will be garage kept. below are before and after pics of the heat gun with the right bag. I'll post pics again when I do the liquid on the left one.
some things on my list for this include Oil change and Valve gap adjustment. On this bike you gotta take at lest one side of the fairing off. I may either put in new injectors or pull these off to clean them. Always wanted to do that for my boat outboards but my mobile mechanic for the boat is so cheap ($100 for Twins) when doing other service I never wanted to spend the time on it.
When I got back into riding after a LONG pause I knew I liked the old bikes and cruisers. I purchased and sold a few bikes and recently saw something that looked like a "great deal" and could not resist. Threw my 2nd XJ650 I got recently up for sale, found a local buyer quickly and then picked this up the same day for not much more than I sold the XJ650.
I will not say I'm a "beamer guy" but I could not help but want to experience it. My riding buddy has an R1200ST. This was priced so low that I could not resist and I'll do the work on it myself so it will be the first Fuel Injected engine I will be working on since I worked on my 77 Datsun 260Z back in the late 80's (when I say worked on it, I really did not do much). Seller was a Harley guy experimenting and I got it for $2K. It was in front of his house and he did not have it listed online anywhere and just wanted it out of his garage. I has about 42K miles on it. Perfect tires
and everything seemed to be working. It has some scratches and scars on it. The windsheild was clouded from UV fade and I already polished it up enough to make it tolerable till I get more time to do it well. All he said he did in 3 years was put 1000 miles on it, oil change and new Battery. I'll take the oil change with a grain of salt and put that on my list of things to do in the near future.
One thing that may be of interest around here is the bags were faded on the inside section of the plastic. I saw a youtube video of a guy using a heat gun so I started on the bottom to test this out and it seemed to work. There are some little tricks I learned experimenting so I got it hot enough but not too hot to melt and still overlap to not stripe the darkening. I did one bag (the right) only. I also wanted to try the liquid restorer stuff so that's coming today. I'll see which lasts longer but this bike will be garage kept. below are before and after pics of the heat gun with the right bag. I'll post pics again when I do the liquid on the left one.
some things on my list for this include Oil change and Valve gap adjustment. On this bike you gotta take at lest one side of the fairing off. I may either put in new injectors or pull these off to clean them. Always wanted to do that for my boat outboards but my mobile mechanic for the boat is so cheap ($100 for Twins) when doing other service I never wanted to spend the time on it.
